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A History of the County of Oxford
… thought preferable. 36 A weavers' and spinners' association formed in 1823 was evidently a benefit club …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The latter was so called by the 19th century from Romantic association with Queen Emma or Aelfgifu (d. 1052), wife of … by the Witney Mills Housing Society, a non-profit-making association established by the Early family to provide …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 30 men to help suppress the Jacobite rebellion, while the Presbyterian minister John Ward urged enlistment and … incomes of 20 s. or less existed about 1880, 401 and an association providing nursing care for the poor was … Hyde, and in 1882 the Witney and Bampton Conservative Association held its inaugural banquet at the Corn Exchange. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and as clerk to the magistrates, and there was a town association for prosecution of felons. 177 With the founding … low wages was mentioned about 1880. 272 A Witney nursing association was founded in 1888 by the rector and a ladies' …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1640s seem to have included a Witney clothier, 4 while the Presbyterian preacher William Martin (d. 1686) came from a … strongly, their presence in Witney being largely through association with the Independents or Congregationalists. 10 … the clergy. 17 Many Dissenters (including, in the 1730s, a Presbyterian minister) attended church at least occasionally, …